Elizabethtown College Psychology News 
Back to top 8/13/2007 Dr. Lemley receives grant In 2006, the college received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education to strengthen teaching and learning at the college. A portion of these funds are being used to support interdisciplinary programs of research. During spring 2007, Dr. Lemley was awarded funding for two projects she is conducting with students, faculty and staff in the biology and occupational therapy departments. These projects also involve faculty at the The first project, which furthers Dr. Lemley’s recent work in synesthesia, is using functional MRI to examine differences in the neural activity of sound-color synesthetes and control participants while they listen to a variety of sounds. Back to top 8/10/2007 Heather Lander ('07) and Kelly Jones ('07) win National Awards Seniors Heather Lander and Kelly Jones received 1st and 2nd prize, respectively, for this year's Psi Chi Scholarship competition (co-sponsored by publisher Allyn Bacon). Psi Chi is the National Psychology Honor Society (www.psichi.org) and this competition involves students from around the country. Heather Lander earned 1st place for her research on attention processes in synesthesia, which is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sense (in this case hearing) leads to the automatic experience in a different sense (in this case vision). Heather's work, supervised by Dr. Lemley, demonstrated that synesthesia occurs only when the perceiver is aware and attending to the particular sound. Kelly Jones, also working with Dr. Lemley, earned 2nd place for her research on visual processing in Attention Deficit Disorder. Comparing students with ADD to control students, Kelly found that those with ADD exhibit a slight visual neglect of their right side, a behavior that is often found in people suffering damage to the right side of their brain. Back to top 8/10/2007 Kevin Hahn ('07) Receives National Award At this year's Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), Etown senior Kevin Hahn received the RiSE-UP (Research on Socially and Economically Underrepresented Populations) Award for his research on support groups for young people of same-sex sexuality. For his research, supervised by Dr. Smith, Kevin recruited college-age individuals from across Pennsylvania to complete his study examining the potential benefits of face-to-face and internet groups for same-sex sexuality exploration. Those using solely face-to-face groups tended to express higher comfort about public aspects of their sexuality, lower social isolation, and lower need for acceptance. The RiSE-UP Award allows students to submit their scholarly work for review by a panel of their peers. In this symposium, winners of the RiSE-UP Award will present their exciting research, which aims to increase awareness of the need for diverse perspectives in scientific psychology. The goal of the RiSE-UP Symposium is to promote and acknowledge outstanding research conducted by Student Affiliates of APS. Four students received the RiSE-UP award this year and Kevin was the only undergraduate student. As an award-winner, he gave a talk in addition to presenting his poster. |
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